Friday, July 4, 2014

Get Your Mega Man Betas/Protos/Trials Here

As requested, I'm re-uploading every single pre-release Mega Man game I've dumped. This time, though, I'm giving you direct access to (what I hope will be) a regularly updated Dropbox. Inside you'll not only find my prototypes, betas and so forth, but all other publicly available dumps, too.

Download what you want, whenever you want. I will be providing a button for quick access to the files on right sidebar soon (right under the Legends 3 campaign button). New prototypes, when they become available, will be hosted on Dropbox. Future releases will coincide with a post right here on the blog so you'll never be out of the loop!

Anyone with an interest in the development history of these games, I invite you hit up the Cutting Room Floor and contribute to the research
scene. The Mega Man articles are ever growing, brimming with all kinds of neat finds. Help is very much appreciated!

It's paramount to digitally preserve prototypes so that they can be kept safe for the years ahead. If you're an owner of a prototype or the like, know that I'm in the market.

i guess we might get our hands on the canned version of MML3 since the game was near completion before capcom cancelled the game. i'm not making this up. the studio who worked with development team said the game was so close of being finished. look at this interview at last question http://www.siliconera.com/2014/05/26/adapt-japanese-game-english-voiceovers/

There was also a "demo" type version (can't recall the actual version tag) of the Rockman Power Battle (CPS1, not CPS2) PCB that went up for auction on Yahoo Japan Auctions a few years back. I thought strongly about picking it up, but opted out. Different version was displayed upon boot up, but who knows if any game data was different. Now I sorta regret not picking it up :(

To add to the list of known betas:Mega Man V (Develop)http://www.rockman-corner.com/2009/05/blast-from-past-mega-man-v-gb.htmlAnd...http://www.rockman-corner.com/2014/03/the-slickest-mega-man-prototypes-youll.html